A continuation of my Writing from Reality blogpost from May 2025.
And here are some stuff I found that's fascinating:
Some characters are inspired by real life people we know in our childhood and early adulthood.
Anyway, examples of reality turned story ideas now commencing!:
A Band Teacher who got promoted to Principal:
Poor Principal McVicker from BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD can't seem to catch a break.
McVicker is the bald Principal of Highland Highschool who shakes due to processing his frustrations over Beavis and Butthead's antics.
We all know the story where MIKE JUDGE, who voices McVicker, got the inspiration for the character.
McVicker was based on a Band Teacher JUDGE knew in the 7th Grade who not only shook like McVicker does but he also smelled of Alcohol.
Sometimes, we encounter teachers in our School years with various quirks but this is ridiculous.
Doug Funnie's Favorite Teacher was also Jim Jinkins' favorite Teacher:
If you still prefer Mrs. Wingo over Emily Krystal just because of her grandmotherly charms,
well guess what,
unlike Emily Krystal, Mrs. Wingo was actually based on a real teacher that JIM JINKINS' knew in his Elementary school days.
Marguerite Wingo was Jim Jinkins' teacher from when he was a student attending MAUDE TREVETTE Elementary School in RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
Compared to most depictions of Teachers from the 1950s that I've seen on Media, Mrs. Wingo was actually warm in personality to a point that she gave Jim all the encouragement that made Jim in the artist that we know and respect to this day.
Shortly after the final episode of Disney's Doug aired on June 26 1999, Jim managed to track down the real-life Marguerite Wingo and thanked her for giving him the encouragement to continue forward with his career as an animator, Illustrator, and Series Creator.
Marguerite Wingo would soon pass away sometime in 2002 but she left an everlasting legacy for Jim even after all those years.
A Controversial Showrunner's past shame of shoplifting+A Spielbergian Inspiration:
The episode MARGE BE NOT PROUD from December 1995 may be a classic episode...
but the man who wrote the episode MIKE SCULLY is controversial
Why?
Because many a SIMPSONS Fan did not like his tenure from Seasons 9 to the first half of Season 13 due to how he rewrote Homer Simpson's general demeanor.
But showrunner controversy aside, SCULLY himself was inspired by an incident in his childhood where he stole a 45rpm Vinyl Record and just like with Bart, Scully got caught by Security.
Unlike with Marge Simpson, Scully's mother never found out.
Well that’s because unlike Bart who was caught and given a warning not to come to the store again,
Scully himself returned the record.
Another Simpsons Real Life Writers Moment:
The episode THE FRONT was inspired by an event where a few teenage girls wrote an episode of TINY TUNES ADVENTURES to Steven Spielberg under a pseudonym.
Believe it or not, not only did Spielberg accept the episode but he also found out the identities of the girls and he gladly gave a tour of his studio to the girls.
And then promptly hired them.
Why can't the current animation industry do the same to our cartoons?
Are they afraid of the money lost if they listen to Spielberg?
Hank's Texan Irony goes south below the border of North America:
Have you ever been so proud of your cultural heritage, only for it to go up in smoke when you finally discover where you're from?
Well that's what happened to MIKE JUDGE.
After many years of him stating how proud of an AMERICAN he was, when he discovered that he was born in GUAYAQUILL, ECUADOR, his reaction was understandably shocking.
Granted that he later became a Naturalized American citizen in his childhood when his family returned to Albuquerque, New Mexico in late 1965.
But stop to think about how Judge felt when he learned the truth.
In the later years, JUDGE accepted his Ecuadorian heritage after understanding that it was a result of his parents working for a non-profit organization in Ecuador.
Inspired by these turn of events at the turn of the Millennium, JUDGE encouraged his writers to come up with a story about HANK discovering that he wasn't born in TEXAS but rather NEW YORK.
how does Hank respond?
With a simple but understandably intense....
And the only thing that can get Hank to accept his New York heritage is to be reminded that his heroes from THE ALAMO were not born in TEXAS but contributed greatly to the event.
This Jerkass Blue Vizier has a surprising connection:
ZIGZAG THE GRAND VIZIER from Richard Williams'
THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER
has a very interesting inspiration.
And it all goes back to 1973.
You see, Williams had a falling out with OMAR ALI SHAH and his brother IDRIES SHASH regarding money embezzlements and the nerves over the brothers demanding full ownership of a central character during the production of THIEF's earlier draft NASRUDDIN.
After Williams broke off the partnership and threw away the NASRUDDIN concept in favor of something original, he made a Grand Vizier character who's manipulative demeanor was based of the SHAH brothers.
Just be glad ZIGZAG was portrayed by the late VINCENT PRICE, otherwise, the character would have been devoid of any redeemable qualities.
A Ghost who's inspired by a developer's Wife:
A Final Boss' Dialogue & the PTSD Stricken Game Creator:
When you fight the Final Boss GIYGAS in the 1994 SNES game EARTHBOUND, the entity spouts some nonsense before the game prompts that you can't grasp his attack's true form.
If looking at GIYGA's form wasn't nightmarish enough for some, then the inspiration behind his dialogue would make you wonder what the hell was on his head.
The dialogue was inspired by a scene in the 1957 Shintoho movie:
KENPEI TO BARABARA SHIBIJIN
(A Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty)
Earthbound Series creator SHIGESATO ITOI accidentally walked in on the film at a movie theater when he was a child and mistook a murder scene for a rape scene which traumatized him greatly.
The story behind this has been mangled for years on end but I think the excuse for the misinformation regarding GIYGAS and the movie could be because of the psychological effects of the trauma that still permeate within ITOI's Cerebellum as well has ITOI's general aging.
I just hope ITOI never mentioned this trauma to Noriko Hidaka or Chika Sakamoto during the production of MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO, otherwise those actresses would never live it down.
Yes, the father in TOTORO was portrayed by the man who made the EARTHBOUND games.
Let that sink into your mind for a bit because that makes me happy.
Now for my side of memories.... I wish I had but for some reason, I can't remember.
But I know this dark story from a friend of mine that I knew from ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
His name is Albert Huang and he was considered my best friend from Kindergarten until the 5th Grade when we were separated away from classes. And then he transferred schools.
Anyway, he often told me and a few other friends this story of what happened to him before he started at Strathcona.
He said that at one night, he was accidentally locked inside a school washroom for several hours straight.
I may be fudging up this memory but I often imagine his story taking place at night because his description probably had windows with some minor light showing through...
HOW SCARY....
As for the part where we create characters inspired by real-life people in our Childhood,
Yes, I've been there.
You may know this but...
She's based on an actual girl I knew during my Elementary and High School Years.
She was born on April 27 1998.
I first met her in Kindergarten circa 2003 to 2004 but we then didn't see each other again until many years later in the Sixth Grade starting in 2009.
It wasn't until sometime in the beginning of Spring 2010 that I developed a Crush on her.
Alas, after many years, I could not establish a committed relationship with her. I wonder why?
The closest I could manage was having 2 photos circa 2016 when the both of us graduated from High School.
You may think that I haven't seen her in a while but that's sort of half true.
While it has been 9 years since we last saw each other in person, We're still in contact on Social Media.
And yes, she does LIKE my posts on Facebook.
And yes, the WRITING FROM REALITY series of blogposts will have a part 05.
Just need to gather some more info from the interwebs of WEB3, find screenshots from the web or my 18TB HDD, and remember some more stuff from my childhood.
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